Clinch Mountain Echo

CMB Birthdays this month:

04 Feb 1972 - Steve Sparkman. Harlan, Kentucky.

04 Feb 1906 - Art Wooten. Born 'Arthur James Wooten' in Alleghany, North Carolina.

11 Feb 1960 - Junior Blankenship. Born at the old Grundy Hospital, Grundy, Va.

25 Feb 1927 - Ralph Stanley. Born 'Ralph Edmund Stanley' in Big Spraddle Creek, near Stratton, McClure, Virginia.

29 Feb 1932 - Jim Williams. Born 'James Lee Williams' in Wythe County, Virginia.


In Memoriam:

05 Feb 1980 - Chubby Anthony. Gainesville, Alachua, Florida.

08 Feb 2003 - Ralph 'Joe' Meadows. Silver Spring, Montgomery County, Maryland.

08 Feb 1987 - Harold 'Red' Stanley. Fentress, Tennessee.


For the Official Ralph Stanley II and the Clinch Mountain Boys site, visit:

Ralph II ralph2.com

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Hymns And Sacred Songs EP Vol. 2
(King EP-456)


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Ralph Stanley - Back To The Cross

(Freeland Recording Co. FRC-CD638) 1992


Back To The Cross

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This Gospel album was recorded on 19th March 1992 at Music Row Audio in Nashville, Tn.

It was the first release on Dick Freeland's new label, after he'd come out of retirement (having sold Rebel at the end of the '70s). It was also the first album to feature Art Stamper on 2nd fiddle and together with Shelton Feazell singing bass, the sound is a bit different. Or maybe it's just the Nashville studio...

Art Stamper had played with The Stanley Brothers in the '50s, and I guess had been brought back to help on fiddle due to Curly Ray's health problems.

Back To The Cross had previously been recorded by Flatt & Scruggs in 1950.

Sinner Man is a different song to the one Ralph had cut on his 1971 Cry From The Cross LP.

Over The Sunset Hill had previously been recorded by Ralph on Over The Sunset Hill, his second LP for King in 1968.

No Burdens Pass Through had previously been recorded by The Stanley Brothers for King in 1964, and was written by Paul 'Moon' Mullins,[1] who also recorded the song in 1966 on his LP 'Hymns From The Hills' (Jalyn JLP 106).

Ricky Skaggs mother, Dorothy Skaggs wrote When We Meet On That Evergreen Shore and had sung it on Ricky's 1975 'That's It' (Rebel SLP-1550) LP.

  • Ralph Stanley: banjo, vocals
  • Junior Blankenship: lead guitar
  • Curly Ray Cline: fiddle
  • Jack Cooke: bass
  • Shelton Feazell: bass vocal
  • Art Stamper: fiddle
  • Ernie Thacker: guitar, mandolin vocals

 

Track:
Title:
Time:
Date:
Original Release:
A-1
I'm Gonna Sing
01:47
19 Mar 1992
Back To The Cross

Mac McMillion
  Hrmny Vcl - Bjo Hrmny Vcl - Gtr Fid Fid Hrmny Vcl - Ld Gtr Bs NB
  Ralph Stanley
Ernie Thacker
Curly Ray Cline
Art Stamper
Junior Blankenship
Jack Cooke
(*)
A-2
Back To The Cross
03:02
19 Mar 1992
Back To The Cross

Jessie Mae Martin
  Tn Vcl - Bjo Ld Vcl - Mnd Fid Fid Ld Gtr Bs  
  Ralph Stanley
Ernie Thacker
Curly Ray Cline
Art Stamper
Junior Blankenship
Jack Cooke
 
A-3
Waitin' For The Master To Come
02:13
19 Mar 1992
Back To The Cross

Judy Marshall
  Tn Vcl - Bjo Ld Vcl - Gtr Fid Fid Ld Gtr Bs NB
  Ralph Stanley
Ernie Thacker
Curly Ray Cline
Art Stamper
Junior Blankenship
Jack Cooke
(*)
A-4
Give Me Jesus
02:02
19 Mar 1992
Back To The Cross

Emma Smith
  Ld Vcl Hrmny Vcl - Gtr Fid Fid Ld Gtr Bs  
  Ralph Stanley
Ernie Thacker
Curly Ray Cline
Art Stamper
Junior Blankenship
Jack Cooke
 
A-5
Sinner Man
02:37
19 Mar 1992
Back To The Cross

P.D. arr Garlin Groves / Cherryl Ellison
  Tn Vcl - Bjo Ld Vcl - Gtr Fid Fid Ld Gtr Bs NB
  Ralph Stanley
Ernie Thacker
Curly Ray Cline
Art Stamper
Junior Blankenship
Jack Cooke
(*)
A-6
No Burdens Pass Through
03:45
19 Mar 1992
Back To The Cross

Paul Mullins / C. Stanley
  Tn Vcl - Bjo Ld Vcl - Gtr Fid Fid Ld Gtr Bs  
  Ralph Stanley
Ernie Thacker
Curly Ray Cline
Art Stamper
Junior Blankenship
Jack Cooke
 
A-7
Silent Warden
03:10
19 Mar 1992
Back To The Cross

Larry Roark / R. Stanley
  Hrmny/Ld Vcl - Bjo Hrmny Vcl - Mnd Fid Fid Ld Gtr Bs NB
  Ralph Stanley
Ernie Thacker
Curly Ray Cline
Art Stamper
Junior Blankenship
Jack Cooke
(*)
A-8
You'd Better Stop
02:29
19 Mar 1992
Back To The Cross

Larry Roark / R. Stanley
  Tn Vcl - Bjo Ld Vcl - Gtr Fid Fid Ld Gtr Bs NB
  Ralph Stanley
Ernie Thacker
Curly Ray Cline
Art Stamper
Junior Blankenship
Jack Cooke
(*)
A-9
When We Meet On That Evergreen Shore
03:19
19 Mar 1992
Back To The Cross

Dorothy Skaggs
  Tn Vcl - Bjo Ld Vcl - Gtr Fid Fid Ld Gtr Bs NB
  Ralph Stanley
Ernie Thacker
Curly Ray Cline
Art Stamper
Junior Blankenship
Jack Cooke
(*)
A-10
Gonna' Be Movin'
01:51
19 Mar 1992
Back To The Cross

Randall Hylton
  Tn Vcl - Bjo Ld Vcl - Gtr Fid Fid Ld Gtr Bs NB
  Ralph Stanley
Ernie Thacker
Curly Ray Cline
Art Stamper
Junior Blankenship
Jack Cooke
(*)
A-11
Over The Sunset Hill
02:42
19 Mar 1992
Back To The Cross

R. Stanley
  Ld Vcl - Bjo Hmrny Vcl - Gtr Fid Fid Ld Gtr Bs  
  Ralph Stanley
Ernie Thacker
Curly Ray Cline
Art Stamper
Junior Blankenship
Jack Cooke
 
A-12
He Took Me In
02:34
19 Mar 1992
Back To The Cross

Jessie Mae Martin
  Tn Vcl - Bjo Ld Vcl - Gtr Fid Fid Ld Gtr Bs NB
  Ralph Stanley
Ernie Thacker
Curly Ray Cline
Art Stamper
Junior Blankenship
Jack Cooke
(*)

NB: Liner notes don't specify instruments/vocal parts for individual tracks, so the above is guesswork. (*) Shelton Feazell can be heard singing bass vocal on these tracks.

Other artwork / related images:
Rear Cover CD Tray Signed copy

[1] Gary B. Reid's book 'The Music Of The Stanley Brothers' (p. 179)

For the Official Ralph Stanley II and the Clinch Mountain Boys site, visit:

Ralph II ralph2.com


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